Halt And Catch Fire [AMC] [** Spoilers **]

satguy

Season 2 is great so far,,

It's like having window back to when it all started, and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking.., "if I only had a time machine" ..

FreudianSlippers

I feel like I'm saying this a lot this year, but the mini-reboot has really helped this show this year. Gone from barely able to keep my attention through an episode to being a very strong show that I look forward to watching.

FreudianSlippers

Loved this week's episode - really thought it was one of the strongest of the season. Donna continues to be my favourite character of this season and the storyline is getting quite interesting. Was a bit shocked to see the "old Joe" back; maybe he needs Sara to be his new relaxed self?

just started watching series 2. 3 eps in. very good stuff again. although it seems to me that the show's plot is being liberal with the timeline of things tech wise. couldn't care that much tho as it's engrossing.

FreudianSlippers

Good solid episode this week with "new Joe" doing the right thing. I'm not sure I understood the shift in thinking by Gordo from last week in telling Donna about his illness, but then at the end when he started talking about the Giant it started to make sense; he hasn't told the full truth and is rapidly deteriorating. Interesting thing about the show is that I'm not sure I foresee how they're going to deal with this illness - a magic cure would be a bit shark-jumpy, but what's the alternative?

Skerries

Joe will talk the illness out of him

just finished the last episode - decent enough season but didn't have the intensity of the building of the "giant" in the first season I thought. yer man Joe has to be the biggest tech visionary ever - he has anticipated every tech advancement so far. if there's a next season no doubt he will come up with the iphone and the ipad, uber and air n'b over brunch.

kearneybobs

Thinking the binge watch for this is going to start very soon. Loved ploughing through the first season.

FreudianSlippers

Interesting season/series finale for what has been a fantastically improved second season of this show. Now that the showrunners have found their feet, I'd love to see where they're thinking of going in a third season, but given H&CF was absent from the AMC press last week, I'd say this show is a gonner.

Shame, because the cast is fantastic and it really started to become a must watch for me.

FreudianSlippers

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Interesting season/series finale for what has been a fantastically improved second season of this show. Now that the showrunners have found their feet, I'd love to see where they're thinking of going in a third season, but given H&CF was absent from the AMC press last week, I'd say this show is a gonner.

Shame, because the cast is fantastic and it really started to become a must watch for me.

yes - good show but the ratings have been dire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halt_and_Catch_Fire_episodes

can't see it being renewed with those figures.

FreudianSlippers

glasso wrote: »

yes - good show but the ratings have been dire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halt_and_Catch_Fire_episodes

can't see it being renewed with those figures.

The only thing going for it is that I heard it has a decent deal (in a package) for international distribution with EOne.

kearneybobs

6 episodes into the second season and still really enjoying it. I miss the whole corporate battle/design spec/prototype building of the first one but there's a little bit of it in the sixth episode. Cam is still one of the most annoying characters to grace TV.

Crumbs

Back for season 3 next year! That's a very pleasant surprise. Hopefully more people catch up on it and it finds a bigger audience because it's one of the best shows around.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/8/9482019/halt-and-catch-fire-season-3-amc

Frank Grimes

Crumbs wrote: »

Back for season 3 next year! That's a very pleasant surprise. Hopefully more people catch up on it and it finds a bigger audience because it's one of the best shows around.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/8/9482019/halt-and-catch-fire-season-3-amc

Great news, I was expecting the worst when I saw an update on this thread but glad to hear it was renewed. It's one of the few shows I watch that I really enjoy. And any TV show that works in the Wilhelm Scream is a classic in my eyes.

somesoldiers

I was glad I stuck with s2 though I was tempted not to bother, really took off in s2, glad there'll be more

kearneybobs

Having binge watched the first season and loved it this went to an inst-watch for me.
Liked the network angle ALNMOST as much as the computer design stuff of the first season. Great news.

marklazarcovic

nearly done with season one, great tv,love the soundtrack and whole vibe off it

somesoldiers

marklazarcovic wrote: »

nearly done with season one, great tv,love the soundtrack and whole vibe off it

Stick with it, 2 is even better

Mr E

Back on August 23rd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpimTVRJcv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHnR0Bqdvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9V8CTtJFYo

somesoldiers

Mr E wrote: »

Back on August 23rd.

cool- season 2 was very enjoyable....now if I can only remember what exactly happened.


One of the pitfalls of the modern binge watch era, at least for me. I've probably watched about 50 seasons of a wide range of shows since this and it's all a blur!

season three is back - not a bad opening episode.

again very liberal use of current parlance in the 80's setting with terms like "user experience" etc which I don't think is an 80's term.
modern themes like user privacy also thrown in there.

personally I didn't think season 2 was as good as season 1. Gordon sickness / seizures were a bit of an annoyance imo as opposed to adding to the show.

early signs that season 3 could be stronger.

expectationlost

1 hour preview was last week with double bill of first 2 eps show next week

squonk

I got a double episode this week! Pretty good opener though. I have to say though that the idea of sharing content was good but how come every VC seemed to ignore the obvious flow which was copyright infringement. I could buy that it mightn't be as obvious as it is today but it's like the elephant in the room the writers are ignoring.

Great start point though for season 3. Joe is seriously channeling Steve Jobs this time round. Great show though. I think I'm more than a little in love with Kerry Bishé! What a woman!

good second episode. definitely better than season 2 so far.

LionelNashe

The Gordon, Cameron and Joe of Season 3 are not the same people as the Gordon, Cameron & Joe of season 1. They're like completely different people. Maybe it just seems like this to me because I binge watched it all in the last 2 weeks. Still, I'm enjoying Season 3.

PhiloCypher

LionelNashe wrote: »

The Gordon, Cameron and Joe of Season 3 are not the same people as the Gordon, Cameron & Joe of season 1. They're like completely different people. Maybe it just seems like this to me because I binge watched it all in the last 2 weeks. Still, I'm enjoying Season 3.

I believe they call it character development .

Battleflag

Really enjoying the third season, has had lots of unexpected moments so far especially in last weeks episode. Glad I stuck with it. Has been renewed for a fourth and final season

http://deadline.com/2016/10/halt-catch-fire-renewed-fourth-final-season-by-amc-1201834492/

Sudden Valley

I thought last weeks episode was the series finale - it really tied off a lot of plotlines and loose-ends. Surprised there is still a two-hour season finale today.

LionelNashe

Sudden Valley wrote: »

I thought last weeks episode was the series finale - it really tied off a lot of plotlines and loose-ends. Surprised there is still a two-hour season finale today.

Damn it. Didn't know there were 2 episodes this week. I just ep 10 instead of 9.

Chain Smoker

Can someone give me a vague idea of what season 3 is like compared to season 2? Is it more focused?

Season 2 seemed a bit of a mess, not really sure why anyone would've thought it was a good idea to diverge everyone's arcs so wildly and then try to force them all back in line. Scoot McNairy's whole season was really ill advised, literally every thing involving his character.

Chain Smoker

Eh, binged through it there like a mental.

Huuuuuuuge improvement on season 2, dunno if I can recommend with season one being erratic and two just being a a dud, but yeah, solid job. And I'm saying this as someone who accidentally watched episodes 8 and 9 in the wrong order

Mr E

Back on August 19th for the 4th and final season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT4UvVoQakc

FreudianSlippers

There's also a doc on Netflix at the moment about Compaq and the basis for most of the show called Silicon Cowboys - it's a pretty good watch if you like the show.

somesoldiers

S4 started last night across the pond.looking forward to it after a great s3 but I'll probably wait til all are available

Occono

Prime Video Ireland has season 4 weekly, but not the first 3 seasons.

Battleflag

First episode was decent, second was very boring. The Joe/Cameron thing has been going on too long, so boring

Occono

The first 3 seasons are now on Prime.

Frank Grimes

They did a really good job with the last 6 or so minutes of this week's episode, imo at least.

kearneybobs

What an episode. Even though I googled the show a couple of days ago and saw a pretty big spoiler, It really hit me in the feels.

Skerries

power off computer

lostcat

going to miss this one, thought the last two series were very good.

Battleflag

Felt the show was all over the place but enjoyed the characters immensley. Other than Gordon's death what else was new in this season? Same of the old but I'm glad I stuck with it because the send off was great

Relikk

Having binge watched this over the past week, I'd say it started off incredibly well, went downhill a bit in seasons two and three and picked itself back up in season four. I liked all the characters except for Cameron and season four Donna. They really turned Donna into a loathsome character for most of that last season, which was a shame because she was one of my two favourite characters in the entire show, the other being Bos (a genuine laugh out loud moment when he found out Lev was gay when looking at his chat).

I didn't know while looking at season four that it'd be the last, but I'm glad it was. It wouldn't be the same without Gordon if they continued.

Enjoyable show all the same.

Came across this show three weeks ago and just finished it.

It is now definitely a top 5 show, and one of the few things on screen that caused me to cry.

It's a character driven show, and one across a backdrop of the take off of personal computing and the internet. I'd assume some techies might find some aspects a touch far fetched on occasion , but that shouldn't be hard to get over given the quality of the writing.

Give this one a try.